The Rise Of The Machines...

[cronus]

11m long, a meter short of the Hawk....

[Blind groper]

This is scary stuff.

Do you think this trend will result in more humans killed or fewer? Why do you think that?

[klr]

...or the boogie..

Anyway, given BAe's track record, this thing will get delivered very late, very much over budget, and not even work in the rain. Humanity is safe for a while ...

[JimC]

I for one welcome our shiny new overlords...

[Audley Strange]

Seems some of the culturally retarded are still afraid of the Spinning Jenny.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

[Seabass]

I wonder how many Gs that thing can do, without humans to hold it back...

[cronus]

Range: Intercontinental

[JimC]

Rage: Incontinent...

[cronus]

Rage: Incontinent...

In the footage it was pointing westwards.

[von Starnberg]

The British fear to fight man to man. They have no honour. Is it not so?

[cronus]

The British fear to fight man to man. They have no honour. Is it not so?

Quite. Bravery is so passé these days, as they say abroad.

[rainbow]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qEsTCTuajE&feature=kp[/youtube]

[Brian Peacock]

Revealed: leak uncovers global abuse of cyber-surveillance weapon

Human rights activists, journalists and lawyers across the world have been targeted by authoritarian governments using hacking software sold by the Israeli surveillance company NSO Group, according to an investigation into a massive data leak.

The investigation by the Guardian and 16 other media organisations suggests widespread and continuing abuse of NSO’s hacking spyware, Pegasus, which the company insists is only intended for use against criminals and terrorists.

Pegasus is a malware that infects iPhones and Android devices to enable operators of the tool to extract messages, photos and emails, record calls and secretly activate microphones.

The leak contains a list of more than 50,000 phone numbers that, it is believed, have been identified as those of people of interest by clients of NSO since 2016.

Forbidden Stories, a Paris-based nonprofit media organisation, and Amnesty International initially had access to the leaked list and shared access with media partners as part of the Pegasus project, a reporting consortium.

The presence of a phone number in the data does not reveal whether a device was infected with Pegasus or subject to an attempted hack. However, the consortium believes the data is indicative of the potential targets NSO’s government clients identified in advance of possible surveillance attempts...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... up-pegasus

[Brian Peacock]

The Machines have risen!